Featured Maps
“The Palm of God’s Hand” - A Map of the Coachella Valley
1946
An attractive and possibly unique example of an apparently unpublished map of the Coachella Valley, known as “The Palm of God’s Hand”, and in Spanish as “La Palma de la Mano de Dios”. D’Ambly was a resident artist of...
The San Diego Exposition
1915
Fine birds-eye view of San Diego, Balboa Park, Coronado and San Diego Bay, published inconnection with the 1915 California Panama Exposition.While there is a postcard version of the view, which was apparently “Published byEno & Matteson, San D...
Map of the University of California
1939
Beautifully designed map of the University of California, extending to the Berkeley, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Riverside, La Jolla, Mt. Hamilton and Davis campuses. “This Map of the University of California sponsored by The California Club ...
The Panama Canal
c1925
Mr. Owens was the first civilian artist to fly over the Canal Zone. This bird's-eye view of the big canal, with its inserted sketches of the locks and interesting canal zone scenes The Panama Canal as seen by Charles H. Owens of the Los Angeles T...
A Hysterical Map of the Grand Coulee
1940
In this pictorial. Lindgren backs off the usual bright color palette but keeps all the humorous vignettes. Given the Grand Coulees’ proximity and importance to Lindgren’s’ home town of Spokane this was a likely and timely subject.&nbs...
A Map of the most Inhabited part of New England...
1755
The very rare first state, with “Konektikut” in the title, of the pre-eminent 18th-century map of New England, and of great geographic and political significance. Issued in 1755, Green’s “Map of the Most Inhabited Part of...
PWA Rebuilds the Nation.
c.1935
An impressively sized and beautifully designed map of the United States by Earl Purdy highlighting many of the major projects in the form of buildings and infrastructure improvements financed by the U.S. Government Federal Public Works Administration....
Authorized Map of the Second Byrd Expedition.
1924
An interesting and decorative item relating to the second voyage of Admiral Richard E. Byrd to the Antarctic, issued by General Foods "makers of Grape-Nuts" sponsors of radio broadcasting of the expedition: "on the Byrd Expedition there is...
You've Only Got to Choose Your Bus
1920
Created for the London General Omnibus Company, Gill's map, centred on Reigate, of the bus routes in the area between Epsom and Horley, north to south, and Godstone to Effingham, east to west, is illustrated in the same medieval modernist manner as...
New Map of the City of San Diego California
1906
Fine lithographed map of San Diego from Pacific Beach in the North to Coronado in the south, with an inset of La Jolla and Index lower left, folding into self-wrappers titled “A New Map of San Diego”. The earliest map of San Diego pri...
